The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

It is quite common for people to focus on the problem rather than the solutions.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

I try to get up every day.

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I was wracked with insecurity.